shright
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English, preterite of shritch.
Verb edit
shright
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of shritch
Noun edit
shright (plural shrights)
- (obsolete) A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].